The Using STAD Method in Improving Students Writing Descriptive Paragraph to the Tenth Grade Students of MAS Ulumul Quran Langsa

Writing is one of important skills that should be mastered by students to be able to use English for communication in their daily life. Through writing, the students are able to express their thoughts, communicate ideas and views to the others. In this case, the problems are when the teacher asked the students to write a simple writing for instance, Descriptive paragraph, they thought too difficult, because they are not only lack of vocabulary but also of understanding grammar as well. They can describe but they cannot give good connector from one word to another word. Based on the writer’s point of view, student’s writing achievement in this school needs to be increased. This study was conducted by using Classroom Action Research. The subject of this study was the tenth grade students of MAS Ulumul Quran Langsa. The number of the subject was 31 students. The subjects were taught by applying Student Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD). The data quantitative were obtained by using writing Test (consisting pre-test and post-test), and qualitative data were taken from Classroom observation (including acting). The result of quantitative data showed that the mean of the second cycle (79,1) is higher than the mean of the first cycle (69,2) and pre-test (64,9). The result of qualitative data showed that students were more active and enthusiastic in following the teaching learning process in the second cycle than the first cycle. In conclusion, there find out improvement on students’ achievement in writing Descriptive Paragraph. Based on the result of the research, STAD method is an alternative to solve students’ problems in writing.